Talking of Perl 6, masak announced the release of Yapsi, a Perl 6 compiler written in Perl 6.

Back to more day-to-day matters, in a poignant lament, Ovid bemoans what he knows he can’t have. Indeed, woe is he, for he is cursed to walk the Earth in company of teams who don’t believe in the goodiness of perltidy. One can only hope that, one day, his cohorts will see the light, and perhaps install a repository commit.

For those interested by the faces behind the minds behind Perl (figuratively speaking, of course. Anatomically speaking, we can only hope that the first is in front of the second, with the third safely inside), dommmentions that the hackathon pictures are up on Flickr.

Still on the topic of celebrities, Adam Kennedy will be on American soil in May. If you are part of a Perl Monger group near Redmond or Boston, you might consider summoning the Great Old One for a presentation…

Not tired of celebrities yet? In that case, draegtun has a nifty blog entry pointing out a few famous Perl programmers. The inventor of the original wiki? A Perl programmer. Creator of jQuery? Another Perl programmer. The mind behind Flickr? Yet another Perl programmer. The father of modern psychology? Okay, not a Perl programmer. Although I should probably double-check who actually wrote the first version Chatbot::Eliza. One never knows…